Slabanogi Quotes & Sayings

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. — Denise Levertov

People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids. Nobody really wants messed up kids. And Moses was messed up. — Amy Harmon

I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living. — Paulo Coelho

We are off! And do we know it, not just because the world is yelling "Lift-off" in our ears, but because the seats of our pants tell us so! Trust your instruments, not your body, the modern pilot is always told, but this beast is best felt. Shake, rattle and roll! — Michael Collins

How is it that Judas, who betrayed Jesus once and was filled with remorse, became the villain, while Peter, who denied Jesus three times and wept bitterly, became the rock on which the church was built? When it comes down to it, what is the difference between Peter and Judas? Well, maybe nothing. And maybe there's not a whole lot of difference between us and them too. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books. — Vint Cerf

Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump. — Jodi Benson

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. — Deepak Chopra

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place. — Arthur C. Clarke

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. — Sam Harris

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child — Gregory David Roberts

A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued. — Peter James